The Muppet fan community has a tradition of hoaxes and general silliness on April Fools' Day. This is a list of April Fools celebrations throughout the years from prominent Muppet fansites:
Muppet Central
- 2003-present - Main page navigation banner is flipped upside-down.
The Muppet Mindset
- 2012 - A fake announcement that Disney theme parks will soon have an Angus McGonagle-based attraction. (link)
- 2013 - The Muppet Mindset and Tough Pigs switch sites. (link)
- 2014 - The site becomes "The Constantine Mindset," a Constantine fansite. (link)
- 2015 - The site (which already boasts the spin-off sites The Mickey Mindset and The Movie Mindset) announces several new fake spin-off sites: The Marvel Mindset, The Mario Mindset, The Monopoly Mindset, The Macaroni Mindset, The Matlock Mindset, The Marmoset Mindset, The Mandy Moore Mindset, and The Mindset Mindset. (link)
- 2016 - The site becomes "The Muppet Mindset: Brought to You by the Refreshing Tastes of Coca-Cola," and featured gratuitous product placement for The Coca-Cola Company. (link)
- 2017 - The site becomes "The Muffin Mindset" and replaced the Muppets with baked-goods. (link 1, link 2 link 3)
- 2018 - A fake announcement that Muppet Babies has been cancelled due to a lack of Skeeter. (link)
- 2019 - A fake announcement about a reboot of The Muppet Show titled "The Muppet Show Again". (link)
Muppet Wiki
- 2008 - Logo is replaced with a picture of Fozzie for "Wockapedia."
- 2010 - present - The site becomes "Muppet Wocka" and spotlights comedy-related articles (such as pie, laughter, pranks and inside jokes) on the main page. 2014 also saw the main page image of Kermit replaced with Constantine.
Tough Pigs
- 2008 - The site becomes a Topo Gigio fansite. (link)
- 2009 - The site's colors are inverted. (link)
- 2010 - A fake announcement that the new Muppet movie will be a remake of the original Muppet Movie. (link)
- 2012 - "Tough Pigs" becomes "Tough Bears." (link)
- 2013 - Tough Pigs and the Muppet Mindset switch sites. (link)
- 2014 - Constantine takes over the site posing as new webmaster Kermit the Frog. (link)
- 2015 - "Tough Pigs" becomes "BuzzPigs," a parody of BuzzFeed with "click-bait" style articles. (link)
- 2016 - "Tough Pigs" becomes "Up Late with Tough Pigs," an Up Late with Miss Piggy fansite. (link)
- 2017 - Tough Pigs renewed its dedication to reporting Muppet news despite there being “no news tonight.“ (link)
- 2018 - Tough Pigs announced a slew of baby versions of various Henson projects and other Muppet Babies-related news. (link)
- 2019 - Tough Pigs posts articles about fictional Sesame Street anniversary specials. (link)
- 2020 - Tough Pigs time-travels back to the 1950s to become a Sam and Friends fansite. (link)
See also
- April Fools' Day
- Fraggle Fool's Day - a Fraggle holiday for playing practical jokes
- Joke Day - a Fraggle holiday for telling jokes
- Jerry Juhl Day - a fan-created holiday to celebrate silliness
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